Taiwan retires first locally designed guided-missile corvette
02/01/2021 09:45 PM
Photo courtesy of Military News Agency
Taipei, Feb. 1 (CNA) The Navy on Monday retired the ROCS Ching Chiang, the first of Taiwan s 12 locally designed guided-missile corvettes that has defended the country s territorial waters for more than two decades.
According to a report from Taiwan s Military News Agency, the decommissioning ceremony was held at Hsin Pin naval station in Kaohsiung, presided over by Tseng An-kuo (曾安國), commandant of the Navy s 131 fleet, to which the vessel was attached.
Present and former captains of the corvette, along with its personnel, attended the event to bid farewell to the ship, according to the report.